Submitted by matthew-w-wilson on Apr 13, 2009, 01:51 PM
In my dissertation research, I am interested in the mappings of Seattle neighborhoods, conducted by local residents, facilitated by a Seattle nonprofit organization, using mobile technology originally developed by a foundation in New York City.  More diffusely, I write about ?technologies? as both the material hardware and software that grew to prominence in the late 1990s alongside the development of social technologies: indicators that measure quality-of-life, broken windows theories of crime and urban decay, and the training of residents to view their streets in replicable ways.